Quotes from Frida Kahlo

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

Feet, what do I need them for If I have wings to fly.

I love you more than my own skin and even though you don't love me the same way, you love me anyways, don't you? And if you don't, I'll always have the hope that you do, and i'm satisfied with that. Love me a little. I adore you.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

I paint flowers so they will not die.

I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.

I want to be inside your darkest everything

They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.

You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.

I don't give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked. But I was happy in my way. You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic, I am tenacious. I am; simply I am ... You are a shit.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

i was born a bitch. i was born a painter.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the train the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.